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New touchscreen coulometer for gas-stream analysis
The CM5016 C/S coulometer (photo) provides highly accurate, absolute determination of carbon or sulfur content in any gas stream containing CO2, SO2 or H2S. The coulometer is used as the detector with a sample-acidification front-end unit, detecting carbon or sulfur…
New clarifier has a large settling area within a small footprint
The Leopold Texler lamella clarifier (photo) for water treatment uses a series of inclined lamellas designed to fit into rectangular clarification basins, providing a large settling area within a small footprint. With its efficient removal of solids, the clarifier attains…
Web-based platform streamlines molecule discovery chemistry
Last month, this company released Torx Test and Torx Analyze (photo) to complete the Torx platform — a single web-based solution that enables drug discovery teams to work together, share knowledge, manage resources and track progress throughout the design-make-test-analyze (DMTA)…
A new rupture disc is ASME BPE compliant
The new IntegrX-HPX rupture disc (photo) addresses the need to improve process performance, reliability and safety within the biopharmaceutical industry. The IntegrX-HPX combines the unrivaled performance of the company’s HPX with ASME BPE (bioprocessing equipment) compliant crevice-free design, removing the…
Linde and Singapore LNG to study CO2-liquefaction facility
Singapore LNG Corp. Pte Ltd (SLNG) and Linde Gas Singapore Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaboratively explore the feasibility and development of a Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Liquefaction and Storage Facility, located adjacent to the SLNG…
Sabic and HHI to produce circular polymers from ocean-bound plastic waste
SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI, have announced a pioneering new collaboration to create the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic. The certified circular polyolefins from…
Tatneft and KazMunayGas establish butadiene joint venture
PJSC Tatneft (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) and Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas corporation, KazMunayGas, have signed a corporate agreement on the operation of the Butadien LLP joint venture for the project implementation for the production of butadiene rubbers. The…
Lanxess to build new engineering plastics production line in Changzhou
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced that it will build a second compounding line for Durethan- and Pocan-branded high-tech engineering plastics at its manufacturing site in Changzhou, China. An investment of around €30 million will increase the capacity in Changzhou by…
Cabot to sell Purification Solutions business for $111 million
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) entered into an agreement to sell its Purification Solutions business to One Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, in a transaction valued at $111 million, subject to certain debt-like and other closing adjustments. Cabot’s…
Westlake to acquire Hexion’s epoxy business for $1.2 billion
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hexion Holdings Corp. (Columbus, Ohio) to acquire Hexion's global epoxy business for approximately $1.2 billion. Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Hexion’s epoxy business is an industry…